Re: Good news for Vets today!

"Joe Schmuckatelli" <no@no.no> wrote in message
news:ifs8h29d7dr1u62fq6ge3kr42fk2tgbeol@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:20:37 -0400, [email]jd@mongo.krivis.com[/email] wrote:
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>>
>>I'm sure most of you have received this too, but I just wanted to let
>>anyone know that hadn't yet received their letter...
>>
>>I got a letter from the Dept. of Veteran Affairs today. They recovered
>>that laptop that was stolen, and the FBI forensic team has reported
>>they do not feel the sensitive data (all our names, soc #s, etc.) was
>>accessed.[/color]
>
> I got that as well, and this was thoroughly debunked by the folks over
> at Slashdot.
>
> Nevermind how one could do it under Linux; what's to stop me from
> removing the drive, adding the appropriate adapter, plugging it into a
> spare system, booting Ghost from floppy and backing up the data to a
> second drive?
>
> I'd like to know just how they determined the information "was not
> accessed".
>
>[/color]

Hubby and I each got the letter as well. (Hubby's active, I'm a veteran)

All you can really do is pay for one of those credit-alerting services, and
watch your accounts.

Sucks.

Natalie